Shaman Mastery Leveling Build for Last Epoch (Patch 1.0)

Primalist passives are mostly used to provide a defensive boost to our character with Cold and Lightning Resistance. These nodes will increase our Attunement, Base HP, and HP Regen.

Plan to only invest 20 points in this tree, as that's the minimum requirement needed to unlock the Shaman, Druid and Beastmaster passive trees.

This build will also utilize Druid and Beastmaster passive trees, albeit a small number of points. We prioritize majority point into Shaman, as this tree will provide majority of our offensive base damage. This build will use mostly base skills from the Primalist, but Avalanche is the sole mastery specific skill that is used.  Avalanche is scaled to last for 8 seconds, which will match the cooldown of the skill. Since we are not channeling, we will regen mana while the boulders are falling. Most of this build will be a player casting  Avalanche, leaping into combat with  Fury Leap, which will proc  Upheaval, which gives armor and endurance when it hits an enemy. As you kill enemies, you have a 25% chance to generate a stack of  Maelstrom, which upon reaching 6 stacks, will give you a massive speed boost.  Warcry can be used to as a heal, cleanse, instantly generate four stacks of  Maelstrom, and will also pull enemies into you, which makes them easier to hit with your  Avalanche.

To start off, place the max amount of points into Natural Attunement, five points into Hunter's Restoration and then seven points into Primal Strength. Natural Attunement will give us a strong start to our Attunement. Attunment will be important for both Primal Bulwark and  Maelstrom. Attunement also is imperative for our base mana pool.

At the point of reaching level 70 and having finished all quests, you should have a total of 20 points into Primalist and 49 points into Shaman. You will also have 8 points in the Beastmaster and 6 points in the Druid.

Druid passives are just limited to the singular node of Chitinous Plating where six points are allocated for the sole purpose of buffing Armor and Endurance.

Beastmaster passives are also limited to a single node. This node is for a flat damage reduction from Ursine Strength where we've allocated 8 points.

Our main damage skill used for this build is  Avalanche. This skill has a large AoE that randomly hits in a large area around our character.  Avalanche will allow us to run around and while we  Fury Leap generating  Maelstrom stacks.

While pathing  Avalanche, prioritize Hailstorm before other nodes. This will ensure our  Avalanche continues to fall around us while we traverse the campaign. Once you collect that node, move to Frost to full convert the damage to cold, this is where our damage will come online. We then focus on Snow Storm in order to create these boulders of frost more often. We do not have a mana generator, however, since we are not channeling, we still regenerate mana while the skill is on cooldown.

 Fury Leap is our primary traversal skill and is how we set up automation with  Upheaval. We use the tree to reduce the cooldown and reduce Mana cost.

Initially, path towards Violent Upheaval. Once there we work towards Warrior's Entrance to boost our Spell Damage. From there path we go to Panther Strike in order reduce the cooldown.

 Maelstrom is going to pump out decent AoE Spell Damage as well as increase your movespeed. This will be automatically generated from killing with  Gathering Storm. This also has significant damage boost from Turbulence, considering we should be well over 60 Attunement.

When scaling this, you should work towards  Gathering Storm firstfollowed by Windfury to boost Movement Speed.

 Upheaval is a massive boost to our defensive scalers. It also helps with the upkeep of six stacks of  Maelstrom we need in order to keep our area DPS and Movement Speed up.

Initially, path towards Through Muck and Clay, being sure to max the nodes Terrain Delving and Primal Bulwark. We then path to Glacial Cascade, to take advanatage of some extra damage by converting to Cold. The remainder of points just help us hit more enemies, ensuring that Primal Bulwark does get its stacks. If you ever fall below six stacks of  Maelstrom, the Earth Armor will be consumed to give you more  Maelstrom.

 Warcry is used primarily as a heal and a way to generate four stacks of  Maelstrom on use. However, it does some damage and purposely pulls enemies closer to us. This ensures they are close enough to be hit by the  Avalanche constantly dealing damage around us.

Path towards the node Whirlpool, being sure to max it and also grab the singular point in Purging Shout. We then path towards Shallow Breath, grabbing only the minimum points along the way. We will then convert the skill to cold with Jormun's Wrath, and finish at Apprehend.